Aug 25, 2017
Leaves, rattlesnakes, and a burgeoning nation in need of paper money:
The Library Company’s Jim Green tells the story of Joseph Breintnall and his role in inspiring Benjamin Franklin to use leaf prints as an anti-counterfeiting measure for Pennsylvania’s paper currency-- today in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Read all about it HERE
Continental currency and state currency from the various colonies and states and of different emissions.